Bartolomeo Ambrosini

Bartolomeo Ambrosini (1588 – 3 February 1657) was an Italian botanist, physician and naturalist, for over thirty years prefect of the Botanical Garden of Bologna and editor of many of the posthumous works of Ulisse Aldrovandi.

When the plague affected Italy in 1630, he worked hard as a volunteer doctor for his city, also issuing a handbook entitled Modo e facile preserva e Cura di Peste.

Linnaeus dedicated to him the genus Ambrosina of the family Araceae,[1] and the Archiginnasio of Bologna keeps two monuments (an epigraph and a bust) in his memory.

This book gives an account of the properties, real or supposed, which the plants dedicated to holy persons or things possess.

The other botanical work was on the capsicum plant, and has the title De Capsicorum Varietate cum suis Iconibus brevis Historia.